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• I realized these were all the snapshots which our children would look at someday with wonder, thinking their parents had lived smooth, well-ordered lives and got up in the morning to walk proudly on the sidewalks of life, never dreaming the raggedy madness and riot of our actual lives, our actual night, the hell of it, the senseless emptiness.

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  Dream, Wisdom, Morning

  Jack Kerouac (2011). “On the Road”, p.289, Penguin UK

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• Maybe that's what life is... a wink of the eye and winking stars.

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  Life, Stars, Eye

  Jack Kerouac, Ann Charters (1996). “Selected letters, 1940-1956”, Penguin Paperbacks

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• All of life is a foreign country.

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  Life, Country, Travel

  1949 Letter, 24 Jun.

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• It’s not that I can’t fall in love. It’s really that I can’t help falling in love with too many things all at once. So, you must understand why I can’t distinguish between what’s platonic and what isn’t, because it’s all too much and not enough at the same time.

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  Falling In Love, Too Much, Helping

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• What does it mean that I am in this endless universe, thinking that I'm a man sitting under the stars on the terrace of the earth, but actually empty and awake throughout the emptiness and awakedness of everything? It means that I'm empty and awake, that I know I'm empty and awake, and that there's no difference between me and anything else.

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  Stars, Mean, Men

  Jack Kerouac (1986). “The Dharma Bums”, p.145, Penguin

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• So therefore I dedicate myself, to my art, my sleep, my dreams, my labors, my suffrances, my loneliness, my unique madness, my endless absorption and hunger because I cannot dedicate myself to any fellow being.

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  Dream, Wisdom, Art

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• This is the story of America. Everybody's doing what they think they're supposed to do.

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  4th Of July, Thinking, America

  Jack Kerouac (2007). “On the Road: The Original Scroll: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.165, Penguin

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• She brooded and bit her rich lips: my soul began its first sink into her, deep, heady, lost; like drowning in a witches' brew, Keltic, sorcerous, starlike.

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  Soul, Firsts, Lips

  Jack Kerouac (2013). “Maggie Cassidy (Annotated)”, p.17, BookBaby

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• On soft Spring nights I'll stand in the yard under the stars - Something good will come out of all things yet - And it will be golden and eternal just like that - There's no need to say another word.

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  Wisdom, Stars, Spring

  Jack Kerouac (2012). “Big Sur (Annotated)”, p.170, BookBaby

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• LA is the loneliest and most brutal of American cities; NY gets god-awful cold in the winter but there's a feeling of wacky comradeship somewhere in some streets. LA is a jungle.

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  Winter, Cities, Feelings

  Jack Kerouac (1957). “On the Road”, Viking Press

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• But on top of all that, the feelings about Princess, I'd also gone through an entire year of celibacy based on my feeling that lust was the direct cause of birth which was the direct cause of suffering and death and I had really no lie come to a point where I regarded lust as offensive and even cruel. "Pretty girls make graves," was my saying, whenever I'd had to turn my head around involuntarily to stare at the in­comparable pretties of Indian Mexico.

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  Girl, Lying, Princess

  Jack Kerouac (1986). “The Dharma Bums”, p.29, Penguin

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• The road must eventually lead to the whole world.

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  Travel, World, Whole

  Jack Kerouac (2007). “On the Road: The Original Scroll: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.297, Penguin

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• No man should go through life without once experiencing healthy, even bored solitude in the wilderness, finding himself depending solely on himself and thereby learning his true and hidden strength

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  Being Alone, Men, Boredom

  Jack Kerouac (2007). “Lonesome Traveler”, p.118, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• It's good-bye. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies

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  Goodbye, Travel, Crazy

  Jack Kerouac (2007). “On the Road: The Original Scroll: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.237, Penguin

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• Offer them what they secretly want and they of course immediately become panic-stricken.

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  Wisdom, Want, Panic

  Jack Kerouac (2007). “Road Novels 1957-1960”

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• Goddamn it, FEELING is what I like in art, not CRAFTINESS and the hiding of feelings.

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  Art, Feelings, Hiding

  Jack Kerouac (1957). “On the Road”, Viking Press

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• Desolation, desolation, I owe so much to desolation.

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  Desolation

  Jack Kerouac (1986). “The Dharma Bums”, p.244, Penguin

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• listen to the silence inside the illusion of the world, and you will remember the lesson you forgot

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  Silence, World, Lessons

  Jack Kerouac (1999). “Selected Letters, 1957-1969”, Viking Adult

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• You'd be surprised how little I knew even up to yesterday

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  Wisdom, Yesterday, Littles

  Jack Kerouac (2013). “Book of Haikus”, p.65, Penguin

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• One man practicing kindness in the wilderness is worth all the temples this world pulls.

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  Wisdom, Peace, Kindness

  Jack Kerouac (1986). “The Dharma Bums”, p.134, Penguin

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• I'm going to marry my novels and have little short stories for children.

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  Wisdom, Children, Stories

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• Life is life, and kind is kind

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  Kind, Life Is

  Jack Kerouac (1976). “On the Road”, p.129, Penguin

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• My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.

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  Wisdom, Failure, Passion

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• All he needed was a wheel in his hand and four on the road.

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  Wisdom, Hands, Wheels

  Jack Kerouac (1976). “On the Road”, p.166, Penguin

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• Some's bastards, some's ain't. That's the score.

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  Score

  Jack Kerouac (2007). “On the Road: The Original Scroll: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.228, Penguin

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